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Life Before Man is a novel by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. It was first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1979 and was a finalist for the Governor General's Award . The novel has three principal characters: Nate, Elizabeth and Lesje.
- Margaret Eleanor Atwood
- 1979
Sep 29, 1979 · Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, here are three people, each in midlife, in midcrisis, forced to make choices--after the rules have changed. Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality, her suppressed rage, is married to the wrong man. She has just lost her latest lover to suicide.
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Life Before Man is a 1979 novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. Set in 1970s Ontario, Canada, it is a modern update on a nineteenth-century “novel of manners,” which explores the complex interpersonal lives of its main characters in terms of their underlying moral beliefs.
Life Before Man vividly portrays three people in thrall to the tragicomedy some call love. Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, they are forced to make drastic choices – after the rules have changed and the boundaries have become faded.
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- Margaret Atwood
Life Before Man vividly portrays three people in thrall to the tragicomedy some call love. Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, they are forced to make drastic choices—after the rules have changed and the boundaries have become faded.
He has become enamored of Lesje, a young paleontologist and perennial innocent who seems to prefers dinosaur fossils to humans. Elizabeth sets her sights on Lesje’s live-in boyfriend, William, and the ensuing emotional maelstrom threatens to upend all of their lives.
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